Practice Makes Perfect Beginning Spanish with CD-ROM (Practice Makes Perfect (McGraw-Hill))

Drop dull language classes and research Spanish with this dynamic, multimedia path! perform Makes excellent: starting Spanish supplies an all-encompassing studying adventure. you are going to immerse your self in huge audio perform and written workouts, providing you with the information and help you want to grasp the fundamental constructions of Spanish.

Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective

This booklet is the 1st finished and systematic English-language remedy of Mexico's fiscal historical past to seem in approximately 40 years. Drawing on numerous years of in-depth learn, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, of the key specialists at the Mexican economic climate, study Mexico's present improvement guidelines and difficulties from a old viewpoint.

Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe: The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness, 1531-1813

"In this learn of advanced ideals during which Aztec faith and Spanish Catholicism mixture, Lafaye demonstrates the significance of spiritual ideals within the formation of the Mexican country. faraway from being of merely parochial curiosity, this quantity is of significant price to any historian of religions interested in difficulties of nativism and syncretism.

Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Winner, booklet Award, organization of Latin American artwork, 2004Reacting to the emerging numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) humans in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon govt of Spain tried to categorize and keep watch over its colonial topics via expanding social legislation in their our bodies and the areas they inhabited.